There's AI slop and anti-AI slop
There's AI slop and anti-AI slop
Posted May 30, 2026 16:38 UTC (Sat) by rbranco (subscriber, #129813)In reply to: There's AI slop and anti-AI slop by dskoll
Parent article: Nesbitt: Protestware for coding agents
> AI is increasingly taking over creative jobs such as software development, animation, graphics arts, book-writing and podcasting.
People will continue to write books and it's up to the readers to decide what they want to read. Same for the other endeavours.
I think these fears are way overblown. In the worst case scenario we'll see creative destruction where AI augments some jobs, replaces others, and creates entirely new ones. Just like happened in the past. AI is not special.
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